Last week, by a vote of 26-14, the Kansas Senate passed SB 56, a bill that amends the state’s existing public morals law by striking an exemption that protects teachers from prosecution for exposing students to "harmful material."

We're now in an age when cars can park themselves, you can 3-D print a bar of chocolate and you can text your fridge to ask if it's time to buy more beer (LG Home Chat). So it was only a matter of time before someone developed a way to order pizza in traffic, with the touch of a...

Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel "The Buried Giant" has so far garnered mixed reactions from critics, with some praising the author for his foray into fantasy, and others finding the result "misbegotten." In a blog post published yesterday, fantasy legend Ursula K. Le Guin left little doubt...

Stephen King has a short story in this week's New Yorker, "A Death," set in the Dakota territory in the 1880s. There was a time when a writer who topped bestseller lists with terrifying stories of homicidal writers, sadistic fans and haunted pet cemeteries would not have fit inside a...